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I wouldn't feel bad about anecdote in this case. All the online descriptions of the performance, including this Wikipedia article, rely solely on the artist's narrative of the events.

Semiapieson Show HN: I built a Python web framework

Probably safest to avoid people raining hate in them for any perceived falling.

Semiapieson What's new in Emacs 29.1

I've had good results with wsl2. The only thing that frustrates me is magit performance on a big project with literally twenty years of commits. (It was originally an SVN repo.)

Semiapieson Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

Even this has some culturally confusing elements, doesn't it?

It's never not going to.

Semiapieson Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

Not universally, no. The closest for English-language use is to put a spurious comma between family and given name (e.g., "Cixin, Liu" for Cixin Liu).

In an ebook management system I've been developing, I use a full_name and a sort_name field for authors/editors/contributors, because books are a reasonable thing to want to sort by author names.

Semiapieson No CSS Club

Fewer neo-Nazis, though.

Semiapieson Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss

This sort of delusion/pretense isn't a good sign.

Semiapieson Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

"Retro-future" is a common term for it, at least in certain blogs and forums.

Semiapieson The Black Hole Objection to Longtermism and Consequentialism

How do things make it to the front page with just eight votes?

Semiapieson My Own Python Web Framework

It would have perfect search engine anti-optimization.

Semiapieson In a 1994 blackout, L.A. residents called 911 when they saw the Milky Way

Look into UFO/UAP forums/subreddits and watch any videos of their "sightings". They're all conventional aircraft, birds, bats, balloons, the ISS, StarLink trains, planets, stars, spotlights on low clouds, etc. With Chinese New Year coming up, the sky lantern sightings have been driving them nuts.

Nothing has intensified my skepticism more than looking at these sightings.

Semiapieson Genders.wtf

Just so. Your gender might not match the cut you need, and even if it does, you might be shopping for a gift.

Semiapieson Publicity Stunt Fallout

Or physics or cosmology.

Semiapieson Watchman: Execute a command when something changes

Alternately, Facebook's project is not to be confused with this significantly older one.

Semiapieson Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?

By the standard of commenters on some websites, everything is "roundly mocked".

Besides, both were just Apple's entrances into particular markets, not technologies themselves.

Semiapieson Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?

I'm trying to think of technologies "roundly mocked" twenty years ago that are common today.

Semiapieson Risk Everything (2007)

Really, I wonder if it happened at all.

Semiapieson Risk Everything (2007)

Yes. He'd have a lot harder time writing this article if he'd gone to investigate a raft full of people dead from dehydration.

Semiapieson Who Cares if it Scales?

I think more people should acknowledge that they're not actually going to build "the next Facebook" or "the next Amazon". Even those very, very few who are going to build the next huge site aren't going to build it that way out of the box

Semiapieson Building a panel out of e-ink electronic shelf labels

Or more likely in many cases, putting up temporary discount signs to be collected at the end of the day.

Still a time-saver to automate.

Semiapieson A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

People have downvoted this, but it's true. I've read more praise for Geocities from nostalgic web geeks in the last few weeks than I ever saw from web geeks while Geocities actually existed.

Especially since, at the time, web geeks who weren't starting out with HTML hated Geocities for being the source of everything wrong with web design. And then of course, half or more of Geocities' existence was as a largely forgotten hosting platform, after almost everyone who'd built a site there in its heyday had quickly abandoned it or otherwise moved on.

Semiapieson The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

Dude, that was 28 years ago.

Semiapieson The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

MIT named that.

Semiapieson Commenting on Hacker News

I've seen a lot of walls of text lately by people that look copied-and-pasted from their blogs/forum rants/whatever.

Semiapieson Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?

Some states have set up more restrictive eminent domain laws since that ruling.

Semiapieson Six programming languages I’d like to see

And yet apparently they've never been good enough, because people keep asking for it.

Semiapieson Six programming languages I’d like to see

The problem of designing adaptively for different screen sizes (much less orientations) was one even VB6 had no answer for.

Semiapieson Six programming languages I’d like to see

Not in any way, no.

Semiapieson 2XL – ‘70s toy that faked AI with an 8-track [video]

Basically, by the "if it has so much as a single decision in the code, it's AI" definition a lot of people like to push, this is actually AI.

Semiapieson In the hunt for dark matter, are axions our best bet?

The actual only obligatory xkcd for this site: https://xkcd.com/1758/